SEO Advance Level Exam – Get Award Certificate on Successfully Completion May 24, 2022 Ads By Google: Last Updated on 3 years by School4Seo Team 260 You need to score at least 60% to pass and get the award certificate. Follow us on Linkedin. Get shoutout to your profile from our official Linkedin Page. SEO – Advance Level Exam Assess your truly advanced level SEO skills. Please submit this form carefully. We shall publish your award on our social media pages to get you better exposure. Follow us on Linkedin to get your award certificate published on our official page. 1 / 25 1. You have a product page and that is ranking fine in search engine. You notice that even after having a good rank on the result page, you are not getting enough conversions. A colleague from your team suggests you change the image and add some text. After the change, you see the difference in the number of conversions. Do you think that these can put this much impact? a. True b. False On the product page, you should always keep testing with images and content until you get the maximum conversion rate. Just an image, CTA text, colour of the button, sequence of form fields, and form location can change your conversion number drastically. 2 / 25 2. What is the sitemap format recommended by search engines? a. html b. rss c. xml d. php The Search Engines recommend submitting the sitemap in XML format. 3 / 25 3. Which google tool does help you analyze the dimension and metrics? a. Google Analytics b. Google News c. Google Tag Manager d. Google My Business In Google Analytics you can create a report with various dimensions and metrics. 4 / 25 4. Your client wants to have a higher ranking in Google My Business. How will you help him to achieve it? a. By getting detailed reviews posed b. By running ads c. By changing the operating times d. By adding services To have a higher ranking in Google My Business, you should always add relevant business information, product and service description, schedules, images, other media files and keep responding to the reviews. 5 / 25 5. How to qualify your outbond links to google? a. Use rel= sponsored nofollow ugc b. Use rel= stopfollow c. Use rel= noindex noreferrer noopener d. Use rel= dofollow noachieve Google suggests defining your links. You can get your outbound links qualified by using tags. For affiliate links, you can use the “sponsor” tag. If your website has user-generated content and links are being inserted by your website visitors, you should tag them with the “UGC” tag. The nofollow tag is used in case of linking back to the website that is not authoritative. Such tags help search engines understand the nature of links. 6 / 25 6. In technical SEO, what should be considered? (Select three correct answers) a. Browser compatibility b. Good quality links from relevant link farm sites c. Clean HTML d. Correct character encoding If your website is not compatible with all browsers, some of your website visitors may experience poor performance. Whenever you add any functionality, test your website on every browser. You can check the browsers and browser version details in Google Analytics on which your website is being accessed. 7 / 25 7. What to do in case of manual action against your website? (Select two correct options) a. Create new relevant links b. Remove paid, spammy and irrelevant links c. Consult with Google representative d. Post more content e. Disavow links Manual actions are taken against your website if you are involved in any unethical SEO practice. If you are found buying selling links or using any blackhat tactic, your website will be de-indexed. The cause of manual action is always mentioned in the notification emails sent by the Google search team. If you receive such notification in your Google search console, do the following things at priority: Analyze the content. If you have duplicate or copyright content on your website, remove that content immediately. Analyze backlinks. If you find any website that you think is irrelevant or has spam hosted on it, disavow it immediately. Get the paid irrelevant links removed. Check the page source. If you find any suspicious script injected in the footer, take the help of the developer to clean it immediately. After taking the following action and fixing the issue, follow the steps mentioned in your email sent by the Google team. You can even re-submit the sitemap. 8 / 25 8. As per Google’s guideline, which is the correct, informative, and optimized URL structure? a. https://school4seo.com/quiz/seo-quiz/ b. https://school4seo.com/quiz/seoquiz/ c. https://school4seo.com/quiz/seo_quiz/ d. https://school4seo.com/index.php?id_sezione=360&sid=3a5ebc944f41daa6f849f730f1 Your website’s URL structure should be clean. As per Google’s guidelines, the user should be descriptive. You should use the hyphen (-) instead of underscore ( _ ). 9 / 25 9. What is the importance of backlinks? a. Give the weightage to other website b. Create reputation c. Drive traffic on the website d. Help to get website ranked Backlinks Create reputation. Even search engines consider backlinks as a ranking factor. Naturally created backlinks help you get a higher ranking on the search engine result page. But buying and selling links to manipulate the ranking is a prohibited practice that may lead your website to manual action. 10 / 25 10. What are the meta tags that are considered by google? (Select two correct options) a. Description b. All the above c. Keyword d. Title Title and Meta Description tags are considered by Google. The keyword tag is not considered by Google but many other search engines use the keyword tag. 11 / 25 11. What does passage indexing means? Select an answera. An algorithm update that generate relevant content from pages and show on the result page.b. An algorithm update that pulls relevant sections from pages into search engine results.c. An algorithm update that index only relevant content from pages and show on the result page. In the Passage indexing, Google pulls relevant sections from pages into search engine results. 12 / 25 12. What are the two ways of optimization? a. Off-page SEO b. On-site SEO c. On-page SEO d. Off-Site SEO On-page and Off-page are the two types of optimization practice. 13 / 25 13. Your competitor’s finance website is just a few months old. But it ranks in quite a better position than yours. What could be the possible reason? (Choose two reasons) a. He is using schema and has clear website structure b. He has bought the quality links c. Content is well explained and unique d. His images are optimised and meta keywords are relevant Having a clear website structure with defined schema and well-explained content, you can get your website optimized quickly. Such websites can easily outrank other older websites. 14 / 25 14. What is the bounce rate? a. When the webpage scrolled automatically b. When someone visit the site and left without performing any action. c. When a visitor navigate to another page with bouncing effect d. When a visitor scroll the site or perform any action When a user exits from your website without performing any action or without any event, such a visit is considered as a bounce. The bounce rate is increased when users come to the website and leave without doing anything. Poor content quality, ambiguous navigation can cause a higher bounce rates. To reduce the bounce rate of your website, you should do the following things. Create informative content with clear navigation Clear call to action (CTA) helps reduce the bounce rate Create Cliffhanger content. It is a situation in content that makes you stick with feelings of excitement, nervousness, relief, joy, etc. 15 / 25 15. Why the alt tag is used? a. It resize the image so that it could load quickly. b. It helps images to load quickly c. It tells the visitor that the image is loading in a moment. d. It provides the information about image in case of the image is not loaded. Alt stands for the word “alternative”. The alt tag or alt attribute is used with images. It provides information about the image or the name of the image, in case if the image is not loaded. 16 / 25 16. What if manual action has been taken against your website, what will you do first? a. Analyse the backlinks and malware in the website b. Migrate to another domain name c. Submit the appeal d. Talk to Google representative Manual actions are taken against your website if you are involved in any unethical SEO practice. If you are found buying selling links or using any blackhat tactic, your website will be de-indexed. The cause of manual action is always mentioned in the notification emails sent by the Google search team. If you receive such notification in your Google search console, do the following things at priority: Analyze the content. If you have duplicate or copyright content on your website, remove that content immediately. Analyze backlinks. If you find any website that you think is irrelevant or has spam hosted on it, disavow it immediately. Get the paid irrelevant links removed. Check the page source. If you find any suspicious script injected in the footer, take the help of the developer to clean it immediately. After taking the following action and fixing the issue, follow the steps mentioned in your email sent by the Google team. You can even re-submit the sitemap. 17 / 25 17. which is the Google tool that help to analyze day-to-day traffic? a. Google Publish Center b. Google Analytics c. Search Console d. Google Ads Google Analytics helps you analyze your website’s day-to-day traffic, user behaviour, and lot more metrics. 18 / 25 18. You have a product page and that is ranking fine in search engine. You notice that even after having a good rank on the result page, you are not getting enough conversions. A colleague from your team suggests you change the headline content. After the change, you see the difference in the number of conversions. Do you think that changing the content can put this much impact? a. False b. True On the product page, you should always keep testing with images and content until you get the maximum conversion rate. Just an image, CTA text, colour of the button, sequence of form fields, and form location can change your conversion number drastically. 19 / 25 19. Why is it important to have a cache plugin on your WordPress website? a. This plugin set priority in search engine. b. This plugin improves the speed and performance of website. c. Google prefers the websites that has cache plugin. d. Cache plugin helps to get your website indexed on priority. The cache plugins improve the speed and performance of the website by generating static HTML pages of your website and saving them on your server. Each time a user tries to access your website, your caching plugin serves up the lighter HTML page instead of processing the scripts and code-filled WordPress generated page. 20 / 25 20. What method is used in the permanent redirection? a. 301 b. 404 c. 302 d. 503 301 redirect is used for permanent redirection. 21 / 25 21. When it comes to the ranking factors, which one is more important, user timing (user’s spending time on the site) or page timing (time to load the page)? a. User timing b. Page timing c. Both When it comes to the ranking factors, both user timing (user’s spending time on the site) and page timing (time to load the page) are considered. User experience helps you understand how easy your website is to access. 22 / 25 22. What is the link scheme? a. Creating links intended to manipulate PageRank b. Part of off-page optimization c. Creating links intended to manipulate site’s ranking d. A way to get website ranked Creating links intended to manipulate a site’s ranking is called Link Scheme. Buying and Selling links are prohibited by search engines. 23 / 25 23. True or False? You should eliminate the render-blocking resources immediately. a. False b. True Render-blocking resources increase your page loading time and reduce the PageSpeed score. You should eliminate the render-blocking resources immediately. Otherwise it will lead to poor user experience. 24 / 25 24. How can you counter canonical issues? a. Use "rel=canonical" tag in the footer of page that is hosting original content b. Use "rel=canonical" tag in the header of page that is hosting original content c. Use "rel=canonical" tag in links pointing to duplicate content d. Use "rel=canonical" tag in the header of duplicate content pages To counter the canonical issue, use the “rel=canonical” tag in the header of the page that is hosting original content. 25 / 25 25. How should an anchor text be written? a. Informative and with context to the content b. First character should be capital c. Just keyword specific d. In the uppercase to increase the weightage The anchor text should be informative and with context to the content. Search engines use links to determine the ranking. 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